Absence Quotes - Page 34

• Absence Is To Love, What The Wind Is To Fire, When It's a Small Fire The Wind Kills It But When It's a Real Fire It Intensifies It

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Real, Fire, Wind

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• Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

  Horatius Bonar

  Want, Recognition, Goodness

  Horatius Bonar, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS”, Lulu.com

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• As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as an attribute of the world, is always there. It is something other than the absence of yellow and blue--and, thus, when that red becomes less red, it becomes more one or the other. It never exists in a linguistic condition of degradation or excess that must necessarily derive from our expectations.

  Dave Hickey

  Positivity, Blue, Color

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• For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

  Patrick Modiano

  Summer, Past, Long

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• All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

  Anne Carson

  Hate, Axes, Desire

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• The absence of disease is not health.

  Shawn Achor

  Disease

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• Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All blessed things that rise above the state of nature are owned to it. The human race thrives only because of the lack of control, not because of it. I’m saying that we need ever more absence of control to make the world a more beautiful place. It is a paradox that we must forever explain.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Beautiful, Blessed, Fall

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• Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

  Miroslav Volf

  Way, Violence, Hospitality

  Miroslav Volf (2011). “A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good”, p.47, Brazos Press

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• Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Effort, Normal, Barbell

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• From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the creative evolution of the fundamental structural plans is heavily burdened with hypothesis. This should appear as an epigraph to every book on evolution. The lack of direct evidence leads to the formulation of pure conjecture as to the genesis of the phyla; we do not even have a basis to determine the extent to which these opinions are correct.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Book, Creative, Fossils

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• But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

  Simon Van Booy

  Love You, People, Built

  Simon Van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.153, Oneworld Publications

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• The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence?

  Tammy Bruce

  Hands, Generations, Culture

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.45, Crown Forum

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• Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheism, Needs

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• Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

  Michael Anti

  Government, Political, Chinese

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• Many in the trans community are fed up with L.G.B.T. organizations that continue to erase trans identity or just give lip service to trans issues. We need our cisgender allies - gay and straight - to treat transgender lives as if they matter, and trans people need multiple seats at the tables in the organizations that say they're interested in L.G.B.T. equality; this absence has been painful since Stonewall.

  Laverne Cox

  Gay, Organization, Issues

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• When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inner Peace, Mind, Causes

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “Conversations with God, Book 2: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love (Anniv)”, p.181, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

  Rumi

  Joy, Solitude, If You Love Someone

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• A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union. That assumption is wrong. Even if you aren’t a member, your pay is influenced by the strength or weakness of organized labor. The presence of unions sets off a wage race to the top. Their absence sets off a race to the bottom.

  Eric Liu

  Race, Shapes, Organized Labor

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• Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

  Anthony de Mello

  Self, Silence, Sound

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.126, Image

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• Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

  Horace Walpole

  Distance, Heart, Voice

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• Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.

  Adam Gopnik

  Accomplishment, Adults, Relief

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Good health is not the absence of symptoms, it is the presence of peace.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Good Health, Symptoms

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• For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.

  Nick Bantock

  Collective Unconscious, Want, Way

  Nick Bantock (2000). “The artful dodger: images & reflections”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to oneself, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill; and the converse of this is true also — he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Kindness, Passion, Animal

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• The strongest presence is so often an absence.

  Steve Rasnic Tem

  Strongest

  Steve Rasnic Tem (2012). “Deadfall Hotel”, p.57, Solaris

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